Al Krow
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I'd probably bite my hand off for that vintage white 1025 now, too 😅 @Happypants - what do ya reckon? 😉
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Nice one, thanks Russ!
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It's maybe a personal thing - like you I could never quite bond with my 735A in the way I did with my 1025. There's just something about the passive BB's that Yamaha seems to have got so right.
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Ah yes thanks, that's right...it was the older 414/5 that didn't have the laminate necks.
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Yes, absolutely 🙂 The pups in the 424/5 are flatter vs sonically richer / sweeter in the 1024/5. Plus more refined woodwork eg laminate neck (1024/5) vs single piece if I remember correctly.
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Will defo try out applying hpf to the kick, which may reduce boominess we sometimes get, although our desk hpf kicks in at 100Hz and up till now the view has been to leave the 50Hz+ region for the kick and just hpf my bass? Can you talk us through your thinking and how you would go about applying "a sine wave on a gate" please? I'm not familiar with what you have in mind here!
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Looks great!
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Ah, just missed your suggestion @cetera, but thanks a bunch for digging that out and maybe someone else will benefit. When I was looking yesterday I kept getting "not available in your territory"! Have just ordered on the link Michael kindly provided (for which many thanks). £54 delivered including 20% VAT. Definitely worth a punt, at that price, for the current flagship KZ I reckon?
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Just found this, which is a very decent review and dealing with some helpful comparisons. For KZ fans he rates the ZAR above the AS 16 Pro due to the ZAR having a more rounded high. I know a number of folk have commented on the harsher treble of the ZS10s so this sounds positive. For those who want something that delivers a strong bass, they're a good alternative to the PR1 Pro which he says are overall more rounded / hifi. He thinks the ZAR's are a little over priced as his main criticism, which I guess would be dealt with if there's availability on Ali Express (I'm only seeing on Amazon currently). But at sub £100 they still sound pretty decent value.
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Coming back to my query, if I may... Has anyone tried the KZ AS 16 Pro or KZ ZAR IEMs and had positive or negative views about them?
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Ibanez Pentatone PTEQ 5-Band Parametric Equalizer Pedal
Al Krow replied to dave_bass5's topic in Effects
Presets would have made it killer pedal for live use. I guess we're still looking at the Source Audio EQ or a multi fx to provide that. -
Agreed. Coming back to the string harmonics point - my understanding (as I've just seen Bill has confirmed) is the guitar string won't be able to generate a sub harmonic (ie a string can't vibrate at a lower frequency than its fundamental) but it may trigger sympathetic resonance eg the kick drum to resonate and start producing lower harmonics and boominess? Is that right? If so, may indeed be worth setting the hpf cut off on the guitar, higher also?
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Yeah agree in part. We apply HPF on the desk to everything already, including bass, apart from the kick: and as I think I mentioned, we're pretty happy with our FoH mix. I think the IEM issue I'm thinking about...is just an IEM issue.
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Maybe getting a bit too complicated particularly, when the KZs already work pretty well. Am really just after folks thoughts on some alternative KZ options. Besides it's not EQ per se that's the issue. Cutting bass on the IEMs is not going to make the bass stand out better in my ear pieces, I wouldn't have thought?
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Thanks Dave, the IEM aux feed is the same as the FoH feed (which we are very happy with) ie it's post EQ so not an option to tweak the EQ on the IEMs unfortunately on our desk.
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Bit of a basic question from me, but... if the low E string fundamental is 81Hz, will setting the HPF at 80Hz for the guitar channel have an impact? I guess it's a string harmonics question ie do strings generate sub harmonics as well higher ones?
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It's an interesting one. Not sure more armatures necessarily equates to better performance though, or what the optimum number is! The consensus seems to be the KZs outperform (and are considerably better value) than Shure IEMs, which have fewer armatures but not necessarily the Sennheiser's which also have fewer 😊
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Interesting you're picking up on the volume point, too, Dave. My key starting point is being able to hear myself clearly i.e. cutting through the mix on my IEMs for bass, I guess in the same way that a vocalist is primarily concerned about hearing themselves sing. It's complicated slightly by using mid priced Xvive U4 wireless with our IEMs, and if I am having to max the volume then other interference issues can creep in, so having a set of IEMs that cut through well without being pushed is very helpful.
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Thanks - I've just done a quick search and the ZSX seems to have been around since about 2019 i.e. a successor to the ZS10 Pro, but predates the more recent ZS Pro10 X. Reviews online seem a little mixed e.g. this one: KZ ZSX review: differently - Soundphile Review, but that's not to say they won't be very decent - look forward to getting your thoughts on them.
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Thanks @warwickhunt, it's a good shout. I find my IE 300s to be a little quieter / less bright than the KZs and need to pushed harder to get to a comfortable stage volume. And our guitarist is using a stage monitor which is providing unwanted competition!
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Looking to get a replacement pair for my KZ ZS10 Pro set (which seem to have gone absent without leave perhaps at a recent gig venue!) In the KZ IEM range there seem to be the following upgrade options (current prices on Amazon): KZ ZS 10 Pro X (£49) KZ AS 16 Pro X (£70) KZ ZAR (£95) Been a fair bit of discussion about the KZ ZS 10 Pro X and some on the AS 16, but I've not seen anything much on here about the ZAR and just wondering if anyone has gone for them or the AS 16 Pro and felt they've been worth the money, particularly if you've previously had either the ZS 10s or Pro/X models.
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At the end of the day, manufacturers of kit are commercial enterprises who need to turn a profit or they go bust. Pricing strategy has to be carefully thought through and got right, and all companies' management will regularly look at the impact of pricing on their sales and margins. If they have built up a brand which allows them to premium price, well good for them! As consumers we pay our money and make our choices: no one is forcing anyone to buy particular kit - there is so much choice around at all price points from budget to boutique. And nothing to stop us buying used either.
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@Salt on your Bass? - my personal experience is I've loved my Mesa M6 amp - its put every other D class amp I've had to shame and it's clearly a quality product, although it's a hybrid class A/B rather than class D, I believe. It's actually just been taken off my hands, as I'm no longer using backline for gigs these days, by a pro bass player for a very decent price (£900 plus P&P), which is not too shabby for an, albeit well looked after, 10 year old amp I bought back in 2014 and have used pretty much every day since - its value no doubt helped by the current scarcity of supply in the UK. On the price point discussion: there's plenty of stuff that's not going to be in any particular individual's price range - I'd love a Wal bass, but I'm not forking out £5k+ for one! You could well argue that a Harley Benton does the job equally well and, in the right hands, it likely does. But surely that's not the point?
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Hopefully no such clanger on the MS-60B+ due out in the next couple of months.
